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Swansea City have agreed to sign Celtic centre-back Stephen Welsh on a free transfer.
The 26-year-old will arrive on a two-year deal with the option of a further 12 months on 1 July after agreeing to terminate his contract at Celtic Park.
Welsh, who impressed while on loan at Motherwell last season, is Championship club Swansea’s first new recruit of the summer and will give head coach Vitor Matos a
Celtic defender Stephen Welsh is poised to become Swansea City’s first signing of the summer.
Welsh, 26, came through the youth ranks at Celtic and has made 70 appearances for the Glasgow giants.
He spent the majority of the 2025-26 season on loan at Motherwell, making 29 appearances for Celtic’s Scottish Premiership rivals.
In the previous campaign he had a loan stint at Belgian side Mechelen, while he also had
The Blades were one of only four clubs in the Championship to make a profit in the last financial year. This isn’t a one-off – they’ve achieved this in four of the past six seasons, but it isn’t typical in the modern game.
United have broken their transfer record seven times and also purchased their stadium, land for a new training ground and bought the adjoining hotel with funds created
They say to never fall in love with a loan signing, but for Watford fans this is proving to be difficult in the case of Stephen Mfuni.
The defender from Manchester City has just turned 18 years old, he’s got a big, beaming smile and he’s brilliant at football.
He came to Vicarage Road at the end of January when the then head coach Javi Gracia was hoping for
Derby County owner David Clowes’ search for new investment has resulted in him working with the man who helped broker his takeover of the club.
Jonathan Price – founder of Union Rights Management, a company which promotes itself as a sales advisory service for sports business owners – earned £100,000 from the part he played in Clowes taking the club out of administration in the summer of 2022.
Price initially
Sheffield United’s two permanent transfer deadline day signings came off the back of work with data experts, says chief executive Stephen Bettis.
The Blades completed deals for winger Christian Nwachukwu from Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv and striker Jefferson Caceres, who has arrived from FBC Melgar in his Peruvian homeland.
“There was a discussion about long-term planning and bringing in some young players who, with the right coach and the right
Molineux, 15:00
Do I think Wolves will score? Yes.
Do I think Ipswich will score too? Probably, because everyone scores against Wolves.
I could come out of retirement and score against Wolves, that’s how bad their backline is.
In fact, I actually think I would score more than one and I am 51.
Wolves have got some talented players but, as I’ve said previously, you cannot concede the amount of